Jermaine

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

82 years ago today, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division board their C-47 bound for Holland and Operation Market-Garden. 🪂

@PieceJake on the colorization 🎨

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In June of 1944, soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division march up the bluff in the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy. 🪖

[746th AAF Band @746thFEAFband]

Easy Company 🪂

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

80 years ago today, brave soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in a fight to restore freedom.

These are the faces of D-Day.

Remember them.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

6th June 1944. Over 150,000 brave British, Canadian, US and Allied forces landed by air and sea in Normandy. This they did for our freedom. #DDay80

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Everything a paratrooper needed to make a combat jump into Normandy on D-Day 80 years ago. 🪂

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

Today and every day, we thank those who have served and continue to serve our country. #VeteransDay

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

The Battle of Aachen was fought by American and German forces between 2–21 October 1944. It was one of the largest urban battles fought by U.S. forces in #WW2. Aachen was the first major city on German soil to be captured. #HISTORY

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

The legendary Dick Winters outside of Battalion Headquarters at Landgoed Schoonderlogt in Elst, Netherlands 1944. 🪂

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In September of 1944, paratroopers Gordon Carson and Frank Perconte of the 101st Airborne Division rest against a wooden fence on the banks of the Dommel River in Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden. 🪂

@PieceJake on the colorization 🎨

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

Tail gunner, *not* my first choice. 🙁 #WW2 #HISTORY

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In late 1944, American soldiers accompany young Dutch children on a morning walk through the grounds of Hoensbroek Castle in Limburg, The Netherlands. 🪖

@PieceJake on the colorization 🎨

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"One day, my grandson asked me, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' I replied, 'No, I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.'

Major Dick Winters led perhaps the most legendary U.S. Army unit in all of World War II. On D-Day, he and his "band of brothers" in Easy Company overcame a far larger German force and enabled the Allied advance to continue. At the Dachau concentration camp, they liberated scores of Holocaust prisoners who had endured months, if not years, of hell. And as the war in Europe neared its end, they captured Hitler's personal mountaintop retreat in southern Germany - then celebrated on his terrace in triumph while sipping champagne from his wine cellar.

Yet, for decades, Winters hesitated to share his story, fearing he might be labeled a hero. Eventually, however, Easy Company's harrowing and courageous exploits on the Western front in 1944 and 1945 were immortalized in "Band of Brothers."

[Jermaine @bambix32]

After 3 days I finally got my biggin

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In April of 1945, soldiers of the 26th Infantry Division catch a ride with the 735th Tank Battalion on an M8 Greyhound near Neustadt, Germany. 🪖

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division have a smoke sometime after the Battle of Carentan in June of 1944. 🪂

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

79 years ago today, paratroopers of Easy Company pose for a picture in the town square of Sainte-Marie-Du-Mont the day after surviving their first combat jump into Normandy 🪂

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Future legendary commander of Easy Company, Lt. Dick Winters, photographed in training at Camp MacKall, North Carolina in 1943.🪂

[Jermaine @bambix32]

Back from Mexico! 5 days no kids and just the Rachel and I was amazing.